EA Consigns Offline Gaming to the History Books

[Royas]

I make almost no use of online features in any game that isn't an MMO. Leaderboards, achievements, multiplayer, I have no use for any of it. The only time I use online features is to buy DLC, and only some of that. As long as they aren't forcing me to connect just to play (like Ubisoft does), they can do what they want with their connectivity. Just leave me out of it.

 

[Programmed_For_Damage]

As long as it is just me playing the game without being forced to interact with other people, I am all for it.

That's what I'm all about.

Am I the only one who disconnects themselves from the internet so they can play a single player game without anyone bothering them?

True that! I hate being immersed in a single player game and then being spammed by messages about who's just come online and who sent me a message.

 

[viranimus]

Oh good. This'll do well with the fact I don't have wi-fi and am still looking for a VERY long ethernet cable(in stores)

Try an electrical supply atore. (IE: where you would buy copper wiring for the electric of a house) You can get an ugly blue 100 foot long cat5 ethernet cable for right around 5$ and you can have them cut you one of virtually any length you would want.

EDIT Ehh this is just EA saber rattling to get people to buy in to what they want them to.

 

[008Zulu_v1legacy]

Its EA's "new" DRM plan, forced online presence. Same old whore, but she has a new hat.

 

[Antari]

What he should realize is hes just removed a large number of customers from the pool of potential purchases with this. I won't buy anything from EA ever again. *Haven't for the last 4 years anyways so not much of a change really*

 

[Merkavar]

lets hope that if they make online stuff they dont forget single player side of things.

 

[TechNoFear]

...and people have to stop accepting the idea of punishing used buyers.

How exactly are used buyers being punished?

Vernor v Autodesk (2009) solidified the 'First Sale Doctrine' in regards to software.

As I said to you in a recent thread, the online/cloud model is comming to games.

If game companies include access to additional online content only for the first buyer of their software, isn't that an incentive to buy new?

The second hand / pirated version will not be able to access this additional content without further purchase. If you know that before you buy the second hand copy, how is that a punishment?

 

[Centrophy]

Sigh, the future of gaming is bleak for people like me who used to enjoy the days of Game Genie, Gameshark, and the like. Is what I would say if it wasn't already here with achievements and trophies... damn those systems.

 

[Daedalus1942]

Oh great. Tell you what, when I have to connect to the internet to watch Citizen Kane, plug my copy of To Kill A Mockingbird into a phone socket, or update my Facebook status in order to listen to a new album, then I'll accept having games online all the time. Until that happens though, EA can go fuck themselves with a mexican cactus.

One of the joys of art is that once I buy it, it is mine to appreciate whenever I want. Having to be always online to play a game essentially means you're handing over control of something you've bought to someone else; in this case, the people who published it. And EA are exactly the kind of company I can imagine abusing that responsibility to try and further their own financial position.

TLDR: Fuck this. Fuck this in the ass.

wait... so they're going to make an online component for dead space 2?
Well... shit
this is bad news for gaming...
Why does everything have to be online these days?
remember when you'd play a single player game that had an amazing campaign, great gameplay, great story...
I guess those days ended with Bioshock *sigh*
-Tabs<3-

 

[Iron Mal]

You know what? Screw them. All the classics are single player only, and I can think of dozens of great games in the past few years that had no online elements. Think about half-life, Portal, Mass Effect, ALL the best games in recent times have had single player as the focus. Just because everyone is suddenly trying to be the new COD dosen't mean that the single-player model is defunct.

Er...all of the games you mentioned there have an online functionality.

Mass Effect (1&2) had DLC, HalfLife and Portal are both played over Steam and as such usually require an internet connection for downloading and to play.

There's nothing inherantly wrong with them adding an online function to games if that allows them to provide us with more features and a higher quality of game (like they said, online doesn't always mean multiplayer).

Even if we start seeing a lot more focus on multiplayer in the future, that isn't a bad thing either, a good single player game can keep people coming back time and again but a good multiplayer game can keep people hooked forever (look at World of Warcraft if you need an example of this), multiplayer and single player are not better or worse, just different.

 

[Fumbleumble]

Deleted... because the asshat I was going to reply too simply isn't worth it.

Don't argue with an idiot, they will drag you down to their level and beat you to death with their experience.